John the Pupil

by David Flusfeder

Book Overview

Set in thirteenth-century Europe, against the backdrop of a medieval world where beauty and violence, science and mysticism, carnality and faith, exist side by side, this is a masterful, mystery-laden novel from the author of The Gift, in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Barry Unsworth, and Michel Faber.

Since he was a young boy, John has studied at the Franciscan monastery outside Oxford, under the tutelage of friar and magus Roger Bacon, an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062339184
• ISBN13: 9780062339188
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.3"